Describe Your Childhood

[Keesha]

Yes you are my senior
Were you a social worker perhaps?

Maybe that’s what confused me.
I think perhaps you described how you feel about your job instead of describing your childhood.

I think I need to learn to be ok with whatever people write and allow people to answer however they feel.

It must be the nit picker in me. Some OCD tendencies unfolding.

 

[Aunt Marg]

What was your childhood like?
Did you like school ?
Did you have many friends?
What types of things did you like to do?
Do you view your childhood fondly?

My childhood was memorable to me.
For the most part, I liked school , did well and had plenty of friends. There were always lots of things to do when we were kids. If I wanted to hang out with a group of friends, it was easy but there was also lots to do solo.

Even as I kid I liked walking. One of my favourite places to walk was down the railroad tracks. The smell of hot tar feels familiar. My life consisted of a good balance between school, playing with friends and personal hobbies. Most of it I think of with fondness.

How about you?

I couldn't have asked for a better childhood.

Hated school with a passion, though, good friends helped get me through, and speaking of friends, I have always been so fortunate in life when it came to finding good solid long-term friends.

As for staying busy there was no shortage of things that kept me out of trouble. At home were baby siblings, and this big sister was involved with all of their needs and care from the time they were babies. Was involved with a ton of school sports, and spent my spare time with friends and close family (cousins).

On quiet and rainy or cold wintery days, I had my trusty cassette player to keep me company, and it seemed mom and I were always doing something in the house... baking, cooking, playing cards at the kitchen table, board games, was always something going on.

Being driven around from point A to point B, was unheard of when I was growing up. I walked or rode my bike everywhere, and that included in the most miserable of weather, and I never complained.

Did a ton of babysitting in my younger years... baby siblings, baby cousins, neighbourhood kids, and that kept me extra busy, and even used to get an occasion job with the city doing odds and ends, such as the one summer where I delivered directories, and even house-sat/pet-sat for people.

What I'd give to go back to those old days and relive them again just for a time.

 

[Gaer]

childhood:
Alone almost always. Quiet, calm, sweet Norse/Welsh family.
Always down at the Yellowstone river alone or the gravel pit, building imaginary cities.
EXTREMELY SPIRITUAL! Saw and talked to Holy angels always! Quit the church at eight years old because I saw the falsity.
Should have been killed many times because, unknown to my parents, I took dangerous chances with my physical body.
My Mother called me aloof and stubborn. I would sing at the table and laugh before breakfast. (both forbidden)
I LOVED thunder! I would always run outside and dance in the rain. adventurous. Always went places I wasn't supposed to go.
I starred in all the school plays, liked cartooning, writing poetry, reading literature. My goal was to grow up to be a LADY.
This all changed when I discovered BOYS at age 15! i partied, danced, kissed boys, HAD SO MUCH FUN!

 

[Pepper]

Why couldn't you laugh before breakfast @Gaer ?

 

[Maywalk]

My childhood was extremely traumatic.
I was in a so called Sister-of-Mercy home where I was cruelly treated until my family finally got me back home at the age of 6 and a half. The year was 1936.
I remember the Jubilee of King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth and when the war started in 1939 I remember being machine gunned in the hopfields and then being bombed out twice during the London Blitz. Plus the 57 days and nights when being continually bombed.
We were finally evacuated to the Midlands towards the end of 1941 where I spent my schooldays at a makeshift evacuee school until I was 14 and started work.
I am past 91 years old now but can still remember it well.

 

[Murrmurr]

Equal parts fun, good food, adventure, and hard work.

I had no idea we didn't have much money. Not until I was in my late teens, anyway. And I was employed by that time.

 

[asp3]

What was your childhood like?

Overall I'd say I had a very fortunate childhood. I was able to experience a lot of things that others might not have been able to. However there were certain things that I wasn't taught that would have improved my life both then and as a young adult and an adult.

Did you like school ?

I liked it for the most part but there were parts I didn't like so much.

Did you have many friends?

I usually had a few close friends but I didn't have a wide social circle.

What types of things did you like to do?

I loved playing games throughout my childhood. I also enjoyed building things with blocks, tinker toys and other things like that. I also enjoyed reading and enjoyed learning things, mostly scientific subjects.

Do you view your childhood fondly?

I am very happy that I experienced a lot of the things that I did but if I had it to do over I'd trade some of my experiences for learning things I didn't know until adulthood.

 

[DaveA]

Pretty darn good, I'll have to admit.

Not much money, but a lot of love. Very involved parents, but on the other hand, pretty free-range before free-range became popular.

I can't complain. Oh, I did a lot of complaining but there wasn't much substance to it.....

Sound like my life was very similar.